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PRESUMPTIVE REPUBLICAN NOMINEE Donald Trump will visit Britain a day after it holds a landmark referendum on its EU membership, saying he was coming to open a newly-renovated Scottish golf course.
Trump said in a statement he would visit on 24 June, a day after the crucial vote which has sharply divided Britain’s ruling Conservative party, with the billionaire tycoon previously saying he believed Britain should leave.
A spokesman for Prime Minister David Cameron’s Downing Street office said there were “no plans” for the two men to meet during Trump’s visit to Britain.
Trump has not stated whether a stop in Ireland to visit his Doonbeg Golf Club in Co. Clare forms part of his trip.
Trump said he would be visiting the Turnberry golf course in Scotland which would be reopening after a €260 million renovation on 24 June.
His visit to the resort and Ailsa golf course, which has hosted The Open Championship four times, will come as Britain learns whether it will stay in or leave the European Union following the 23 June referendum.
Trump has said his personal “feeling” is that Britons should vote to leave, telling Fox News last month:
I would say that they’re better off without it, but I want them to make their own decision.
Last week Cameron, who is pushing for Britain to stay in the bloc, said US presidential candidates “often come through London” but added, “We have no firm dates in the diary.”
Cameron told parliament in December last year that Trump’s comments about banning all Muslims from entering the United States were “divisive, stupid and wrong”.
“I think if he came to visit our country, he would unite us all against him,” he said.
Trump subsequently warned that the pair were “not going to have a very good relationship”, although he later backtracked, saying that if he were elected president in November, “we’re going to have good relationships”.
The tycoon last visited Trump Turnberry, located on the southwest Scottish coast, in July 2015, after adding it to his portfolio of golf courses the previous year.
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Can I have my money back now
It’s like’…..burning your furniture – to keep warm!
Why are PwC saying this instead of IBRC and NAMA?
As property prices start to rise nama , ibrc start to dump property
Can someone explain why?
Dumping loans philip, not property. They’re Dumping the loans as they’re non-performing and want to get them off the balance sheet.
If they had the patience, they’d put arrangements in place to allow the properties to return to positive equity and then seek a sale, this recouping more of the tax payers money.
Unfortunately, they’ll sell the loans for a discount and allow the new purchasers to do this and net a tidy profit.
The article outlines that IBRC (IBROKE would probably be a better name) will offload € 15 billion in loans.
Yet the linked article tells us that IBROKE have already offloaded 90% of its loanbook, € 19.8 billion out of € 21.7 billion leaving just € 1.9 billion on hand.
This can only mean, if the previous article is correct, that it is NAMA that is offloading the majority of the loans.
Why the subterfuge?
Why make people think that this is some kind of joint enterprise when it is NAMA that is leading the charge?
Have the shiny suit brigade from the canal something to hide?
Given their obsession with secrecy it would not surprise me if they have, perhaps selling the loans to some preferred customer with an inside track at a serious discount.
The way things go it will all be wrapped up before we know anything, plus ça change.
Who in their right mind would buy this junk?
It might only be worth 30% of face value but if you buy it for 20% it’s a good deal. For the buyer anyway.
@ Irish Revolution
The Banks?
Hedge funds bought it. They will now sell off all the ghost estates etc at a lower price so people that have houses for sale at the min will eventually have to sell for half or take them off the market.
Fab house here in drogheda asking price €325. Hilarious. You could now nearly get a house for that on raglan road or ailsbury road!! So that house is realistically worth less than €150 really.
People and notions ha
What about Bank of Scotland selling on my mortgage & others in their Irish portfolio to a company called Tanager Ltd.
I’m in a tizzy all day because I don’t know what it means for us.
have your say